Czech court to try first case under new law against foreign spying
A court in Prague is about to hold the first trial under a new Czech law that makes it a crime to carry out illegal activity on behalf of a foreign power.
A court in Prague is about to hold the first trial under a new Czech law that makes it a crime to carry out illegal activity on behalf of a foreign power.
Andrej Babiš's incoming Czech government has refused to guarantee European Union money set aside for the Czech state budget.
Andrej Babis, prime minister of Czechia, keeps saying the Ukraine war needs a diplomatic solution and that someone must talk to Russia.
Škoda JS, a Czech engineering company owned by energy group ČEZ, has signed a deal with Rolls-Royce SMR to be the only designer and maker of drive systems (mechanical parts that move and position components) for Britain's small modular reactors, a newer, smaller type of nuclear plant.
The Central Bohemian Region, one of Czechia's 14 regional governments, is paying 12 million korun (about $500,000) from its own budget to send nearly 200 portable battery stations to residents of Ukraine's Kyiv oblast (region) before winter.
A Czech company called LPP Holding has finished testing Narwhal, the country's first home-built cruise missile, which can hit targets more than 600 kilometres away.
Czechia's industry minister says the two new nuclear reactors being built at Dukovany by South Korea's KHNP will cost about 700 billion crowns, almost double the roughly 400 billion crowns the government announced in 2024.
The European Union is considering putting Bertha von Suttner, a Czech-born countess, on a redesigned euro banknote, reportedly the 200-euro note.
A Czech state fund called PGRLF is suing 28 companies owned by Agrofert, the business group once run by Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, demanding they repay farm subsidies totaling more than 22 million koruna.
Prague plans to grow its army even as its defence minister rejects talk of a recruitment crisis. For a small NATO member, adding soldiers rather than only spending is a pointed move amid transatlantic strain.
The smart recorder found in the Czech cabinet room in January had been sitting under the Government Office's nose for months. Its security apparatus never identified the owner — until Sport Minister Boris Šťastný stepped forward himself.
Czech President Petr Pavel has published the results of his annual preventive check-up at Prague's Central Military Hospital: fit for office "without exceptions", with a doctor's advice to watch his cholesterol. Mara Whitlock on why a routine lab result is a political document.